Arizona Hires Former Michigan Football Coach Rich Rodriguez

Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Rich Rodriguez was hired as the new
football coach at the University of Arizona less than a year
after being fired by the University of Michigan following a
tumultuous three-year stint in which he had a 15-22 record.

Rodriguez, 48, has a career coaching record of 120-84-2
over 18 seasons, including a 60-26 mark at West Virginia
University from 2001 to 2006.

While Rodriguez led the Mountaineers to four Big East
Conference titles, his time at Michigan was marked by two losing
seasons, rules violations and the most lopsided bowl loss in the
school’s 131-year football history. Michigan Athletic Director
Dave Brandon described Rodriguez’s tenure as “three years of
turmoil” when he was fired on Jan. 5.

Rodriguez takes over an Arizona program that has a 3-8
record heading into its season finale against Louisiana-Lafayette. He succeeds Tim Kish, who took over on an interim
basis when eight-year coach Mike Stoops was fired in early
October.